Virat Kohli holding the ICC Males’s ODI Cricketer of the Yr award for 2023.© ICC
God’s Plan! Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh shared a light-hearted second – repeating this mantra – in a video shared by ICC’s official Instagram account. Forward of the 2024 T20 World Cup, Kohli was awarded the ICC Males’s ODI Cricketer of the Yr award for 2023, and the 2 could be seen saying the phrase earlier than Kohli picks up the trophy. The mantra was popularised by Rinku Singh throughout IPL 2024, because the Kolkata Knight Riders ended a ten-year drought to grow to be champions for a 3rd time.
Kohli beat stiff competitors from India teammates Shubman Gill and Mohammed Shami and New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell to win the award. He additionally obtained the Group of the Yr cap for final 12 months.
Regardless of Group India’s World Cup Last heartbreak, Kohli loved a renaissance within the 50-over format in 2023. He gained the Participant of the Match, amassing 765 runs over 11 video games; the highest-ever in a World Cup, overtaking Sachin Tendulkar‘s tally of 673 runs within the 2003 World Cup.
Now, having additionally clinched the second Orange Cap (Most Runs) of his profession in IPL 2024, Kohli is within the West Indies and USA, as India purpose to win a second T20 World Cup title.
Kohli can also be the best run-scorer in T20 World Cup lead, and can purpose to stretch his data even additional this summer season.
And if Rinku’s mantra is to return true, ‘God’s Plan’ might have much more which means to the lads in blue this 12 months. Rinku has additionally travelled with the staff to the USA, as a part of the reserves after narrowly lacking out on the 15-man squad.
Group India has not tasted the success of a significant ICC trophy since 2013. At 35, Kohli is operating out of time so as to add some extra feathers to an unimaginable particular person trophy cupboard.
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